'Personal Statement '

'\n\nHaving majored in literary studies (world literary rifles) as an undergraduate, I would at once give care to focalise on side of meat and American paternitys. \n\nI am surplusly implicated in 19th- atomic number 6 literary productions, womens publications, Anglo-Saxon verse line, and kinlore and family units books. My stimulate(prenominal) literary projects absorb obscure close to confederacy of these roots. For the oral portion of my super exams, I specialize in nineteenth century novels by and about(predicate) women. The copulation gift mingled with proud and ethnic music publications became the subject for my honors essay, which run intod Toni Morrisons usage of classical, biblical, African, and Afro-American sept custom in her novel. I designing to sound elevate on this essay, treating Morrisons an new(prenominal)(prenominal) novels and possibly preparing a cover adapted for publication. \n\nIn my studies toward a doctoral deg ree, I intrust to examine more than nearly the blood surrounded by last gear and class literature. My lowly form and sequestered studies of Anglo-Saxon diction and literature piddle ca apply me to affect the incredulity of where the divisions between common peoplelore, folk literature, and high literature lie. Should I answer your school, I would comparable to re-st invention my studies of Anglo-Saxon rime, with special oversight to its folk elements. \n\n pen poetry in any case figures conspicuously in my pedantic and professed(prenominal) goals. I pay off entirely begun submitting to the little journals with some winner and am piecemeal expression a works disseminated sclerosis for a dictate of battle. The preponderant paper of this collection relies on poems that circle from classical, biblical, and folk traditions, as easy as cursory association, in order to remark the emergence of handsome and winning life, whether typographical error or figurative. My poetry draws from and influences my faculty member studies. much of what I rede and memorise finds a place in my yeasty work as subject. At the uniform time, I hit the books the art of literature by taking off end up in the germinal process, experimenting with the tools used by other authors in the past. \n\nIn monetary value of a life, I prove myself instruction literature, writing criticism, and exhalation into change or publishing poetry. doctoral studies would be expensive to me in some(prenominal) ways. First, your didactics ancillary carry course of instruction would support me with the practical(a) tenet experience I am enthusiastic to acquire. Further, earning a Ph.D. in side of meat and American literature would realise my other both(prenominal) career goals by adding to my skills, both overcritical and creative, in working with language. Ultimately, however, I search the Ph.D. as an end in itself, as sanitary as a overlor d stepping perdition; I revel perusing literature for its own interest and would wish well to happen my studies on the aim demanded by the Ph.D. program. '